"Are you sure you want to do this?" Leo asked Lucy. They were about to go out and start the hunt for Brian when Lucy told them she wanted to go with them. "We have absolutly no idea what kind of condition he's in right now."
"I understand fully, Leo. But maybe I can still reach him, if I can give you an edge I'll risk it." She replied. "I just can't sit here and do nothing..."
Leo nodded, "Allright. But if there is trouble get out of the way. We'll deal with him if it gets out of hand." Leo was still trying to figure out how they were going to deal with him. The last time didn't go so smoothly.
"You sure your up to this, Leo?" Donnie walked over "Think your arm will handle it?"
"It has to, Donnie. We can't waste anymore time." He looked at the others. "Are we ready?"
"As ready as we are going to get." came from Raph.
"Let's go."
They left the lair and made their way to the rooftops. If they were going to do this Leo wanted plenty of room to maneuver and the sewers were to confined. Once they reached the top of a near by building Donnie reached into his pouch and pulled out the little device that they had found in the briefcase. The purple masked turtle had guessed that Brian had a tracking chip in him which was why the Bachman troops could easily fing him. Apparently they had thought about potential breakouts, but trying to catch him after wards was provong to be quite a challange for them. Leo was hoping they would have better luck.
Donnie had studied the little machine and figured out that it was indeed a tracking device. Brian had apparently figured out what they were planning to do and had collected everything he needed to bring to the authorities but got himself caught before he could. Caught and turned into the experiment that they were working on.
Leo waited patiently while Donnie worked on the tracker. His little brother didn't have the frequency he needed to follow Brian so he had somehow altered it to trace the residual DNA. He had tried to explain the whole thing to Leo but had given up at the older turtle's blank expression. "I'll just take your word for it, Donnie. If you say you can follow him I believe you." Then he went to go look for something for the headache his brother had just givin him.
Donnie looked up from the tracker. "I got a fix. It's a trail that we can follow."
Leo nodded. "You lead. We'll be right behind you. Everyone keep your eyes open and be careful."
Quietly they moved out, following Donnie as he made his way across the rooftops. He led them to a run down part of town with a lot of old abandoned buildings. Some of those buildings looked like they only thing holding them together was dumb luck. Leo didn't like this at all one wrong move on the wrong building and it could collapse under them. "Donnie, wait up." Donnie looked at Leo and stopped.
"What's the matter, Fearless?" Raph asked him.
"I don't trust the stability of some of these buildings. We won't be doing Brian any favors if we get buried under rubble."
"So what now?"
Leo thought a moment. "Donnie, how close do you think he is?"
Donnie looked at the tracker. "He isn't far, Leo. He's in that maze of abandoned buildings."
Leo looked around. He saw not far away a large empty parking lot near one of the abandoned buildings. He narrowed his eyes, it was perfect, if they could get him there. He absently rubbed his arm, the cut was itching tonight. He then stopped as an idea struck him. He knew how to lure Brian in...
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"This is so not cool." Mikey muttered as he wandered the abandoned streets in the unused section of town. He was out here, alone, trying to find an overgrown mean as hell teddybear. Mumbling to himself he went down an ally and came out on another abandoned street. Leo had remembered how dogged Brian went after him when he had been bleeding. Donnie said it had to do with them smell of blood. Bleeding animals made easy animals to kill, thus an easy meal. They just needed the easy meal.
Leo had sent Lucy to the nearest butcher shop to get the bloodiest piece of meat she could find. She had come back with a large rack of ribs, freshly cut and still dripping.
"So guys, how are we going to do this?" Mikey had asked.
"One of us needs to go in there with that and get his attention, then draw him here." Leo replied.
"Not me." Donnie had said. "I need to watch for his trace."
"I'm guarding, Lucy." Raph piped up.
"I can't go. I need to set up the ambush. I guess that means you little brother." Leo looked at him with amusement.
"Seriously? Aw c'mon bro. Why do I have to be the bait? I'm always the bait!"
"Because your so good at it." Raph said grinning. "Now scoot." He gave Mikey a push.
So here he was, walking around with a rack of ribs trying to lure in a big monster. Really not cool. He siged as he walked down the abandoned street, he had been walking around now for about twenty minutes. Maybe he should go back, it didn't look like anything was out there. He had just started walking back when he heard growling coming from behind him. He slowly turned around.
Brian was standing in the ally enterance that he had just walked out of. His eyes were fixed on Mikey and he growled softly again. "Nice, big mutated guy. Easy fella..." Mikey slowly started to back away.
Brian started to slowly stalk him. 'So far, so good.' As long as he just kept it at a walk it should be easy to lure him towards the others. Brian growled again then stopped. "Come on big guy. I got yummy treats for you." Brian narrowed his eyes and crouched down. "Uh oh..." Mikey turned araound and ran as Brian launched himeself in the air. Mikey ducked and rolled as Brian flew past where he had been just been moments before. Swiftly he got up and took off again, Brian closing in on him once again. "Dude, seriously! You need to lay off the energy drinks!"
Mikey knew he couldn't out run him. Desperatly he looked around and noticed a fire escape ladder in front of him. As he ran he lept up to the ladder, his weight pulling it down, then continued on. He heard a crash and a roar behind him and he turned his head to look. Brian had his head stuck in between the rungs of the ladder. This gave Mikey some breathing room but not much. Brian was already bending the metal and soon would be free again. "Aww.. what's the matter? Don't like your new collar?"
With a roar, and a scream from Mikey, Brian ripped free of the ladder and took up the chase again. Mikey was almost there, he just hoped the guys were ready.
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Leo heard Mikey's screams and knew they were coming. "Donnie, Raph, get ready!"
Raph climbed up on a lightpost that was hanging over the entrance to the parking area and lowered a rope, then he set himself. Mikey turned a corner running as fast as he could but Brian was still catching up to him. "Leo! I'm really not liking this!" his little brother cried. He then threw the meat further into the parking area and grabbed the rope Raph was holding for him and swung out of the big beast's way as Brian charged under him. Brian went after the cut of meat, following it further into the open space.
He stopped to sniff the meat, then started to eat as Donnie rushed out of the shadows behind Brian. Swiftly and quietly Donnie ran up to the beast with a needle ready in his hand. He was about to place the needle when Brian turned around and knocked him into the air towards Leo.
"Shit!" Leo leapt up to grab his brother before he hit the ground. He knew how hard Brian could hit and they couldn't risk the needle being broken. After he caught Donnie he turned so his shell took most of the impact, but they still hit the ground with enough force to knock the breath from Leo's lungs. Well this was turning out to be fun...
"You alright, Donne?" He asked his brother when he finally caught his breath. The smaller turtle nodded and they both got up. Brian had went back to his meal and the two brothers split up. Leo moving to the front of the beast and Donnie once again moving to the back. Raph came up to him. "Now what?"
"We try to distract him long enough for Donnie to get that sample. I'll come up on his right side you take left." Raph nodded and circled around. They slowly moved in making sure the beast was focused on them as Donnie once again moved in from behind. Brian wasn't having none of it though, he swiftly lashed out at them and they nimbly dodged out of the way. Donnie was almost on him when Brian turned and once more sent Donnie flying thru the air. This time there was no one to catch him and he hit the ground hard, the needle flying from his grasp into the darkness. He didn't move.
"Donnie!" Leo and Raph ran towards their fallen brother, but Brian was faster. He was almost on top of the downed turtle when Lucy rushed to stand in front of him again. "Brian, please. Let us help!" The monster laid eyes on her, growled and stepped closer. Lucy held her ground, but this time she didn't seem to get through to him. He growled again and lowered himself for a pounce. Leo watched in horror, there was no way he and Raph could get to her in time...
Suddenly there was a shadow flying over Lucy and Donnie and suddenly MIkey was ontop of Brian. Quickly he tied the rope Raph had used to pull him to safety around the beast's neck and held on as Brian started to try and buck him off. "Woooooo Hoooooo! Ride 'em cowturtle!" Leo ran on, amazed at his little brother's antics. He reached Donnie just as Raph grabbed Lucy and pulled her away. He picked up his fallen brother and sprinted behind them. Once they were a safe distance away he turned and watched his crazy little brother.
Mikey, with one hand holding onto the rope, was riding Brian like a bucking bronco. His agility making it easy for him to stay on top of the beast who was now roaring in fury. He then held something in his other hand and jabbed it into the side of Brians neck. It took Leo a second to figure out what it was. 'The needle.' He must have picked it up after Donnie dropped it.
Suddenly a light flashed on a rooftop. Leo looked up and saw figures standing there. Numerous figures and the one standing in the middle of them he knew all to well. "Karai." he whispered. "Raph get them under ground!" He then turned his attention to the youngest as Raph picked up Donnie and led Lucy away. "Mikey, let's go! Now! We got company!"
Mikey looked up and saw the foot soldiers on the roof. Just as quick as he got onto the beast he got off, going under the torso and quickly wrapping the legs together then dashed out towards Leo. Brian tried to follow but tripped over the rope. Leo knew it wouldn't hold him, the ropes were already starting to snap. By now the foot soldiers were making their way down, but the brothers were already fleeing, following Raph and Lucy. By the sounds of it Brian was preventing their being followed anyway. They came upon the sewer entrance Raph used and slipped into the darkness, with Brian's roars of fury rising into the night sky behind them.
